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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 19
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Cities of refuge appointed for cases of manslaughter—Murderers shall be put to death—Two or three witnesses required in court cases—False witnesses punished.
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When</span> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee, and <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/1a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB you dispossess.">thou</a> succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
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Thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/2a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR set apart (also v. 7).">separate</a> three <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/19/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 21: 13.">cities</a> for thee in the midst of thy land, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee to possess it.
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Thou shalt prepare thee <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/3a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB roads.">a</a> way, and divide the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/19/3b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB area, territory (also v. 8).">coasts</a> of thy land, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/19/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 21: 13 (12-14).">flee</a> thither.
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&#182; And this <i>is</i> the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/4a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB unintentionally.">ignorantly</a>, whom he hated not in time past;
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As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
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Lest the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 98: 23.">avenger</a> of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he <i>was</i> not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
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Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
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And if the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God enlarge thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Chr. 4: 10.">coast</a>, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
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If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, and to <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
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That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee <i>for</i> an inheritance, and <i>so</i> blood be upon thee.
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&#182; But if any man hate his <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 27: 24; 2 Ne. 9: 35; Mosiah 13: 21.">neighbour</a>, and <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/19/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 35: 16 (16-25).">lie</a> in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
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Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
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Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/13a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB purge.">put</a> away <i>the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/19/13b" mark="b" type="C" title="1 Kgs. 2: 31; TG Guilt.">guilt</a> of</i> innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
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&#182; Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 27: 17; Job 24: 2; Prov. 22: 28; Hosea 5: 10.">landmark</a>, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee to possess it.
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&#182; One <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 26: 60; 1 Tim. 5: 19.">witness</a> shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/19/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Cor. 13: 1; 2 Ne. 27: 12 (12, 14); D&C 6: 28.">witnesses</a>, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
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&#182; If a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Lying.">false</a> witness rise up against any man to testify against him <i>that which is</i> wrong;
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Then both the men, between whom the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Disputations.">controversy</a> <i>is,</i> shall stand before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezra 7: 25.">judges</a> shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, <i>if</i> the witness <i>be</i> a false witness, <i>and</i> hath testified falsely against his brother;
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Then shall ye <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Retribution.">do</a> unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
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And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
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And thine eye shall not pity; <i>but</i> life <i>shall go</i> for life, <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/19/21a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE not literally; interpreted by the Rabbis to be symbolic of equal compensation.">eye</a> for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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